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gnashiest

gnashiest is the superlative form of gnashy.

Meaning of gnashy

Adjective

gnashy (comparative gnashier, superlative gnashiest)

  1. Related to or typical of gnashing the teeth.
  2. Of a sound, grating and harsh.
  3. Characterized by grinding or gnashing.
    • Deft and comfy, if gnashy of engine, the Prizm looks like an inspired sketch that somehow made it into metal and ought to be viewed as a traveling sculpture exhibit.1992, Car and Driver - Volume 38, page 72
  4. (informal) Unpleasant; tedious or undesirable.
    • Even Hozomeen'll crack and fall apart, nothing lasts, it is only a faring-in-that-which-everything-is, a passing-through, that's what's going on, why ask questions or tear hair or weep, the burble blear purple Lear on his moor of woes he is only a gnashy old flap with winged whiskers beminded by a...1965, Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

Questions about gnashiest

What is gnashiest the superlative form of?
Gnashiest is the superlative form of gnashy.

Words near gnashiest in the dictionary

  1. gnashes one's teeth
  2. gnashes up
  3. gnashest
  4. gnasheth
  5. gnashier
  6. gnashiest
  7. gnashing
  8. gnashing one's teeth
  9. gnashing up
  10. gnashingly
  11. gnashings

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